Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by toyg on Monday February 21, 2022 @01:53PM
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Half of Wales and Scotland was rebuilt with European money that Westminster would not have dispensed otherwise, preferring people in decaying cities to "get on yer bike". If that's a "rounding error", think what the UK government could have achieved before and since, and never bothered to.
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Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
by blibble on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:53PM
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your statement makes the bus figure look honest by comparison
the block grant to Scotland in 2019/20 was £32 billion, whereas EU RDF was €1.8 billion for 2014-2020
or put another way: the UK block grant provides Scotland more than 128x more the EU funding over the same period
put another way: EU funding is 0.78% of that provided by the UK, which I think is fair to describe as a rounding error
additional points:
1. the RDF only exists because of Westminster: the UK government made it a condition when it joined the EEC in 1972
2. EU funds spent in the UK are funds from Westminster as the UK is (well, was, thankfully) a net contributor
(as a general observation: innumeracy amongst ultra-remainers seems to be very common)